Production

This season also features the first episode written by voice actor Nancy Cartwright with the episode "Girl's in the Band", making her the third of the six main cast members to have an episode to their name (Dan Castellaneta having cowritten many scripts since season 11 and Harry Shearer writing the season 28 episode "Trust But Clarify"). This also makes her the first female main cast member credited with a writing credit, and the season overall hit a new high for women writers with ten females with episodes credited to them, including two scripts from Megan Amram and a joint script by veteran Simpsons writer Jeff Martin and his daughter Jenna Martin. For the eSports-themed episode "E My Sports" the show's producers hired League of Legends developers Riot Games as consultants in order to get the eSports referenced in the show as authentic as possible.[6]

Controversy

The show came under fire for the episode "D'oh Canada" in late April 2019. While the episode mocked American and Canadian heads of government Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau and brought up the SNC-Lavalin affair, the aspects that caused offense were largely related to a Frank Sinatra parody song where Homer made fun of Upstate New York[7] and for the use of the slur "newfie" in relation to Canadian residents of Newfoundland. In the latter several Canadian children chime "stupid newfies" before a character closely resembling Ralph Wiggum calls himself one and proceeds to beat a baby seal pup plush toy with a club while singing about being a Newfoundlander.[8] Musician Bruce Moss rejected an offer from the show's producers to use his song "The Islander" for the episode, referring to them as "morally bankrupt" and turning down $20,000 US.[9]

Episodes

Bart takes part in a dare, which ends with him in a hospital. In order to cover up for himself and Homer (who had failed to stop him in time), Bart makes a claim that he met Jesus in Heaven. When Christian producers want to offer him a movie deal, Bart starts to feel guilt about his cover-up.

A company that is selling self-driving cars sets up in Springfield. When Homer accidentally crashes his car into Mr. Burns' window, he is fired and gets a job at the self-driving car company. This causes all of the employees of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to quit as well so they can have a better work environment.

Following a failed prank phone call, Bart, Nelson and Milhouse get Moe a mail-order Russian bride on the Dark Web. But when Anastasia Alekova darkens Moe's tavern door, Moe fears he will have his heart broken again and tries to distance himself from her.

With some help from Julio, Marge pretends to be a drag queen in order to successfully sell Tubberware. Meanwhile, Lisa feels good after returning a hidden box that belonged to Jasper when he was a child, so she does little things to try to make other people happy.

After Bart finds plastic soldier toys in the basement, Grampa begins to remember about the photos taken of him back in the 1940s as a model for the soldier toys. When he realized that he may have ruined the photographer's life after unintentionally getting him fired, Grampa pays him a visit.

Homer takes covert dancing lessons to make amends to Marge after he binge-watches the new season of Odder Stuff without her. Meanwhile, Bart enters "Krusty's Holiday Trample" to win a shopping cart full of Krusty merchandise.

Krusty reveals the untold story of his past in his movie "The Sands of Space." Bart and Lisa learn about the early years of their parents' relationship, when Homer and Marge were personal assistants on Krusty's film.

Homer and Marge sneak into a wedding expo, only for both to become injured before their romantic night ends. While Marge decides to take up kite boarding, Homer winds up with a hallucinated hernia that makes him even more indolent than usual.

After Homer gets him a new gaming computer, Bart begins to excel at eSports. When Bart's team has a chance to win $500,000 in a gaming tournament in Seoul, Homer decides to coach his son and Lisa worries they'll both go to South Korea without her.

Bart decides to protest with his friends after Krusty announces the debut of an all-female reboot of The Itchy & Scratchy Show. However, Bart then gets persuaded to join a female-led protest group after getting caught liking the show.

When director of the Capitol City Philharmonic Victor Kleskow scouts Lisa, she must endure his harsh training. Meanwhile Homer works extra shifts at the plant and Marge, Bart and Maggie make long daily trips just so Lisa can play.

When disgruntled cast and crew expel Llewellyn Sinclair from directing Oklahoma!, Marge steps up to helm a production written by Lisa about Jebediah Springfield. Meanwhile, Homer takes a liking to the sexy supervisor running the "Daddy and Me" baby classes he attends with Maggie.

The family takes a trip to Niagara Falls to redeem some hotel rewards they earned. But when Lisa falls down the Niagara Falls in a ball and ends up on the Canadian side, she ends up loving Canada and decides to permanently reside there.

Mr. Burns cuts health care benefits for his employees, so Marge buys healing crystals for Bart for his ADD. Marge decides to sell them to support her family, and sales jack up when the word spreads that the crystals help Bart get better grades... or do they?

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